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Babylonian Number 23

Babylonian Number 23

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mesopotamian

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Construction note

Cuneiform number: vertical wedges count ones, corner wedges count tens, in a base-60 system.

About this symbol

Meaning: The number 23 written in Babylonian cuneiform.
Culture / origin: Sumer / Babylonia (Mesopotamia)
Era: From c. 2000 BCE (Sumerian roots c. 3000 BCE)
Historical context: Babylonian scribes pressed reed styluses into clay to write a sexagesimal (base-60) place-value system — the ancestor of our 60-minute hour.

Public-domain ancient numeral system; credit its Mesopotamian origin.

Tags

babyloniansumeriancuneiformnumeralsexagesimal

SVG source

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